THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

I owe a lot of thank you's for the generous giving during the National Nordic Foundation's Drive for 25!   We raised almost $55,000 from the community, plus another $17,000 in matching grants!  This exceeded last year's benchmark and puts the NNF much closer to it's annual fundraising goals.

I want to assure everyone that their dollars will be well spent.  Every chance that we get to compete is an opportunity that I appreciate and will make the most of.   And besides the numbers and dollars, the overall support of the ski community stepping in to help its athlete means everything to me.

Photo credit: Michael Ward.

We started jumping on snow this Wednesday, which is the earliest I've ever started the winter and was only one week after we finished jumping on plastic!  We'll get a good few weeks of jumping in before the Continental Cup here on December 14th.   That and the altitude will give us a strong home-field advantage!